- McNeel, DG;
- Wuosmaa, AH;
- Kuvin, SA;
- Smith, J;
- Back, BB;
- Chen, J;
- Hoffman, CR;
- Kay, BP;
- Wilson, GL;
- Sharp, DK;
- Clark, RM;
- Crawford, HL;
- Fallon, P;
- Macchiavelli, AO
We have studied the Mg26(t,p)Mg28 reaction. The nucleus Mg28 lies between Mg24 and Mg32, the latter of which is central to the "island of inversion"characterized by low-lying neutron fp-shell configurations. The present results show that the second-excited 0+ state in Mg28 contains large fp-shell occupation for the neutrons. The experiment was performed in inverse kinematics using the HELIcal Orbit Spectrometer (HELIOS) at Argonne National Laboratory. Shell-model calculations using the SDPF-MU interaction yielded level energies and two-neutron transfer amplitudes that were used in one-step distorted-wave Born approximation calculations to provide theoretical predictions of the proton angular distributions. In many, but not all cases, the data were in good agreement with theoretical predictions.